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M. ADLER.

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N0. 357,356. Patented'Feb. 8, 1887:

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MAX ADLER, NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIG NOR TO MAYER, STROUSE 8t 00., OF SAME PLACE.

CORSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 357,356, dated February 8, 1887.

Application filed August 9,1886. Serial No. 210,402. No model.)

. erence marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and

exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1, onehalf. the corset, showing the flap at the top; Fig. 2, the same view, showing the flap as turned upward to expose the open ends of the pockets; Fig. 3, an inside view of the same part of the corset, showing the lower flap partially turned away to expose the lower end. of the pockets, Fig. 4, a vertical sectiou through one of the pockets, showing the stay therein.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of corsets in whichthestays or bones extend from top to bottom through the various sections.

In the parts of corsets where the bends are short, as over the hips or at the waist-line generally, they are liable to break, audit is with so much difficulty that the broken bones or stays can be removed that the disadvantage of broken stays is endured for a time; but the corset is prematurely discarded because of such broken stays. In the better class of corsets steel springs are taking the place of bones as being more elastic, their elasticity not affected by moisture, and to a considerable extent less liable to break; but in the use of steel stays it is essential that there .should be some provision for their convenient introduction and removal, first, because they should not be introduced until after laundering, and must be removed whenever the corset is to be cleansed.

The object of my invention is to construct the corset so that the springs may be readily introduced or removed without ripping or cutting any part of the corset. To this end I construct the corset with the outer thickness shorter than the inner at thetop, and so that the pockets open at the upper end below the upper edge of the corset, as seen in Fig. 2, and so that the upper ends of the stays a are exposed, and around the upper edge of the corset, and stitched to the edge above the openend of the pockets, I fix a flap, A, which extends down onto the corset over the pockets, and so as to form an ornamental band around the upper edge of the corset from front to rear, as seen in Fig. 1. In Fig. 2 the flap is represented as turned upward, exposing the upper ends of thepockets, through which the stays a may be introduced, and when so introduced the flap is turned down onto the face of the corset. This flap must be cut corresponding to the shape ofthe upper edge of the corset in order to lie flat thereon.

As the springs or stays break at the waistline, the upper portion will be readily removed through the opening in the pockets above; but to remove the lower portion I construct the inner thickness of the corset shorter than the outer at the lower edge, and so that the pockets between the two thicknesses will open at the lower end upon the inside and above the lower edge of the outer thickness of the corset, as indicated in Fig. 3, and upon the inside of the corset I applya band-like flap, B, stitched to the lower edge and extending from front to rear, and so as to lap upward onto the inside of the corset above thelo'wer ends of the pockets, as seen inFig. 3, the flap in that figure represented as partially turned away to expose the pockets. To prevent the possibility of this lower flap turning downward or becoming displaced in wearing, I secure the flap to the body of the corset by lacings at difi'erent points, as shown. These lacings are readily detached whenever it is necessary to remove or introduce the stays or springs. broken atthe waistline, the upper portion If, then, astay be may be removed through theupper end of the applying to the ends of such pockets a flap which may cover the exposed end of the stays, as such, I am aware, is not new; but

Vhat I do claim is A corset provided with pockets, and having the outer thickness cut shorter than the inner thickness at the top, and the inner thickness out shorter than the outer thickness at the bottom, and whereby the said pockets between the two thicknesses are open upon the outside below the upper edge of the corset and upon the inside above the lower edge of the corset, respectively, and having a band on the outside at the upper edge of the corset stitched to the MAX ADLER.

Witnesses:

JOHN E. EARLE, FRED O. EARLE. 

